1-3 - TYLER TRAMMELL-HUSTON - 9 - LINDA YUBA COUNTY CA - THE BOY WAS IN FOSTER CARE AND THE SYSTEM ALLOWED HIM TO VISIT WITH HIS 24-YEAR-OLD HALF SISTER WHO LIVED IN A TRAVEL TRAILER WITH 3 PIT BULLS. IT APPEARS SHE LEFT HIM TO GO TO WORK AND WHEN SHE CAME BACK HE WAS MAULED TO DEATH. 1-8/9 - PAYTON LYRIK SAWYERS - 15 MONTHS - INDEPENDENCE GRAYSON CO VA - ATTACKED BY A PIT BULL/ROTTWEILER MIX?? ON THE NIGHT OF JANUARY 6 AT A HOME OF 2 PEOPLE SAID TO BE HER BABYSITTERS - SHE WAS RUSHED TO A HOSPITAL IN NC WITH SEVERE HEAD INJURIES AND WAS PLACED ON LIFE SUPPORT- SHE DIED ON JAN 8 OR 9, 2016.

(1-2- PACK OF FERAL DOGS - UNIDENTIFIED NATIVE AMERICAN MALE ABOUT 40- GALLUP NM - PENDING - FOUND NEAR A FAST FOOD RESTAURANT ON U.S. 491 - POSSIBLY MAULED BY A PACK OF DOGS)

1. 1-7 - EUGENE WESLEY SMITH - 87- FREDERICK MD - ATTACKED AND KILLED BY A 4-YEAR-OLD NEUTERED PIT BULL WEIGHING ABOUT 84 POUNDS THAT HAD BEEN RESCUED/ADOPTED AND LIVED IN THE HOME WITH SMITH, HIS SON AND HIS SON'S FIANCE SINCE MAY.

2. 1-19 - DECLIN MOSS - 18 MONTHS - ISTACHATTA NORTH OF BROOKSVILLE FL - ATTACKED AND KILLED BY 2 OF THE FAMILY'S PIT BULL MIXES WHILE IN THE CARE OF HIS GRANDFATHER.

4. 2-4 - FREDERICK GLENN CRUTCHFIELD- 63- COAL HILL, JOHNSON COUNTY AR - FOUND DEAD NEAR WOODED AREA OUTSIDE HIS HOME - AUTOPSY REVEALED HE DIED FROM BLOOD LOSS DUE TO MULTIPLE DOG BITES - THE DOGS, BREED UNKNOWN AT THIS TIME, BELONGED TO A RELATIVE.

5. 2-22 - TAY'LYNN DEVAUGHN, 2 - WEST MIFFLIN PA - MAULED TO DEATH BY HER AUNT'S BOYFRIEND'S PIT BULL INSIDE THE HOME WHERE SHE AND HER FATHER HAD BEEN STAYING FOR SEVERAL DAYS - SHE HAD BEEN AROUND THE PIT BULL PREVIOUSLY.

6. 3-8 - ROY HIGGINBOTHAM JR - 62 - WHEELING WV - AUTOPSY PENDING - A 3-YEAR-OLD FEMALE PIT BULL OWNED BY DAVID WALLACE, 63, POSSIBLY A ROOMMATE OF HIGGINBOTHAM, ATTACKED HIM WHEN HE TRIED TO GIVE AID TO WALLACE WHO MAY HAVE HAD A HEART ATTACK. WALLACE HAD OWNED THE MOTHER OF THIS PIT BULL SO HE HAD THIS DOG SINCE IT WAS BORN. AUTOPSY RESULTS SHOW THE VICTIM DIED FROM A SEVERED RADIAL ARTERY NEAR HIS LEFT WRIST.

9. 3-21- DE'TRICK JOHNSON- 36 - JEFFERSON COUNTY AR - ATTACKED AND MAULED TO DEATH BY 7 PIT BULLS AS HE GOT OUT OF HIS CAR AT C.J.'S GARAGE JUST OUTSIDE THE CITY LIMITS OF PINE BLUFF. HE WAS WAITING FOR THE OWNER TO ARRIVE TO OPEN THE GATES SO HE WAS STILL OUTSIDE THE GATES IN A PUBLIC STREET AREA.

11. 4-14 - KENNETH LAWRENCE FORD - 79 - PAHRUMP NV - ATTACKED BY 3 PIT BULLS ON MARCH 13, HE DIED ON APRIL 14 FROM HIS SEVERE INJURIES.

12. 4-19 - BRAYDEN WILSON - 2-MONTH-OLD INFANT BOY - DALLAS TX - THE BABY WAS IN HIS BOUNCY SEAT. HIS FATHER WAS WITH HIM AND HIS MOTHER WAS NOT HOME - THE FATHER WENT OUTSIDE TO TURN ON A SPRINKLER AND WHEN HE CAME BACK IN, THE FAMILY PIT BULL WAS MAULING THE BOY WHILE HE SAT IN THE BOUNCY CHAIR.

13. 5-2 - GAEGE ANTHONY RAMIREZ - 7 - CANYON LAKE TX - MAULED BY AS MANY AS 5 UNKNOWN BREED DOGS AT A HOUSE IN CANYON LAKE TEXAS WHERE HIS MOTHER HAD TAKEN HIM TO VISIT.

14. 5-25 - JAMES W. NEVELS III - 5 - CHICAGO IL - THE BOY WAS VISITING IN A HOME WITH HIS MOTHER - A PIT BULL (OWNER NOT KNOWN AT THIS TIME) WAS AT THE RESIDENCE AND WAS BEING KEPT IN A BEDROOM BUT IT "SOMEHOW" GOT TO THE BOY AND GRIPPED DOWN ON HIS NECK AND SHOULDER - HEROS - 2 TEENAGE BROTHERS CAME WITH EVERY OBJECT THEY COULD FIND AND BEGAN BEATING THE PIT BULL - A CHAIR, A KNIFE, A ROCK, A POLE, A BRICK UNTIL THEY BEAT THE MUTANT TO DEATH....BUT IT WAS TOO LATE!!!

15. 6-28 - JORDON COLLINS-TYSON 'JO JO' - 3 - LAWTON, COMANCHE COUNTY OK - THE CHILD WAS BEING RAISED BY HIS GRANDFATHER AND THEY WERE AT HIS GREAT GRANDMOTHER'S HOUSE. IT WAS REPORTED THAT THE GRANDFATHER WAS WORKING ON A CAR THERE. SOMEONE NOT NAMED WAS WATCHING AFTER THE CHILD BY LOOKING THROUGH A WINDOW AS HE PLAYED IN THE YARD. WHEN THEY LOOKED AGAIN, THE BOY WAS BEING MAULED BY A PIT BULL. TWO DOGS WERE ON THE PROPERTY AND EXACTLY WHO OWNED THIS DOG HAS NOT BEEN NAMED YET.

16. 7-2 - NORBERTO LEGARDA- 83 - PECOS TX - THE ELDERLY MAN WAS FEEDING A RELATIVE'S PET DOG IN THEIR BACKYARD WHILE THEY WERE OUT OF TOWN WHEN 3 PIT BULLS ENTERED THE YARD AND BEGAN ATTACKING THE RELATIVE'S PET AND THEN TURNED ON THE MAN. BY THE TIME POLICE GOT THERE AND SUBDUED THE PIT BULLS, HE WAS ALREADY DEAD.

17. 7-7 - JOSHUA PHILLIP STROTHER - 6 - HENDERSON NC - NEIGHBORS ADOPTED A NEUTERED MALE PIT BULL ABOUT 1-YEAR-OLD FROM A SHELTER IN A NEARBY COUNTY AND THEY ALLOWED JOSHUA AS WELL AS THEIR GIRL ABOUT THE SAME AGE AS JOSHUA TO PLAY WITH IT - IT APPEARS THAT JOSHUA CLIMBED THE FENCE OF THE NEIGHBOR TO PLAY AND WHEN HIS MOTHER DISCOVERED HIM A FEW MINUTES LATER HE WAS COVERED IN BLOOD AND APPEARED TO BE DEAD.

18. 7-12 - ANNIE WILLIAMS - 71 - SHAKER HEIGHTS OH - SHE WAS PICKING UP HER 2 GRANDDAUGHTERS FROM THEIR FATHER'S HOUSE AND HAD A 13-YEAR-OLD RELATIVE IN THE CAR WITH HER. SHE EXITED THE CAR AND WAS ATTACKED IMMEDIATELY BY A PIT BULL WHO BELONGED TO SOMEONE WHO ALSO LIVED IN THE HOUSE. tWO MEN CAME AND TRIED TO PRY THE PIT OFF HER BUT COULD NOT AND ONE OF THEM GOT A GUN AND FIRED. THE DOG WAS POSSIBLY WOUNDED AT THIS TIME AND IT RAN INTO THE BACK YARD. OFFICERS SHOT THE DOG DEAD WHEN THEY ARRIVED. ANNIE WAS TRANSPORTED TO A HOSPITAL WHERE SHE DIED.

19. 7-24 - CAROLYN SUE LAMP - 68 - REDBIRD OK - SHE WAS FROM COWETA OK AND WAS WALKING ALONG PICKING UP CANS WHEN SHE WAS ATTACKED BY 4 DOGS - 3 PIT BULLS AND 1 ROTTWEILER.

20. 8-22 - PORSCHE NICOLE CARTEE - 25 - KILLED BY THE FAMILY PIT BULL THEY HAD OWNED SINCE IT WAS A BABY - IT WAS SAID TO BE AN UNNEUTERED MALE ABOUT 10-YEARS-OLD - A FRIEND HAS REPORTED THAT THE PIT BULL HAD ATTACKED THE MOTHER BEFORE PUTTING HER IN THE HOSPITAL BUT THEY NEVER REPORTED THE ATTACK TO OFFICIALS - THIS TIME IT BEGAN BY ATTACKING THE MOTHER AND NICOLE WENT TO HER AID AND IT TURNED ON HER - ANOTHER WOMAN IN THE HOME FINALLY GOT THE PIT OFF HER AND CALLED FOR HELP BUT SHE WAS FATALLY INJURED.

21. 8-24 - CATHY WHEATCRAFT - 48 - MOCKSVILLE DAVIE COUNTY NC - THE WOMAN WALKED OUT TO HER MAILBOX SOMETIME BEFORE 7PM ON MONDAY EVENING AND THE NEIGHBOR'S PIT BULL ATTACKED AND KILLED HER - ANOTHER NEIGHBOR WAS INJURED COMING TO HER AID - IT WAS REPORTED THAT THE PIT BULL JUMPED OUT OF THE WINDOW OF ITS OWNER'S HOME - THE OWNER WAS NOT AT HOME AT THE TIME - THE PIT BULL HAD PREVIOUSLY BEEN DECLARED "A NUISANCE" FOR ESCAPING ITS HOME AND ATTACKING ANOTHER DOG.

22. 9-4 - BARBARA MCCORMICK - 65 - BILLINGSLY AUTAUGA COUNTY AL - CORONER'S REPORT STATES CAUSE OF DEATH WAS FROM DOG ATTACK FROM THE FAMILY PETS DESCRIBED AS SHEPHERD MIX AND OR RETRIEVER MIX - THERE ARE NO WITNESSES BUT THE SHERIFF SPECULATES THAT THE SMALL, ELDERLY WOMAN WAS IN POOR HEALTH AND MAY HAVE BEEN FEEDING THE DOGS WHEN THEY GOT INTO A FIGHT OVER FOOD AND TURNED ON HER. FACEBOOK PICTURES OBTAINED FROM HER SON'S PAGE SHOWED A LARGE PIT BULL IN THE HOME.

23. 9-8 - EMILIO RIOS SR - 65 - NORTH SHORE RIVERSIDE COUNTY CA - 2 PIT BULLS ATTACKED AND KILLED HIM AS HE WAS WATERING HIS FLOWERS IN HIS YARD AND LEFT A WOMAN WHO TRIED TO HELP HIM SERIOUSLY INJURED AND IN THE HOSPITAL.

24. 9-22 - CARMEN REIGADA - 91 - MIAMI DADE FL - NEIGHBORS SAY THE 3 DOGS - AN AMERICAN BULLDOG, A RHODESIAN RIDGEBACK, A LAB MIX - BELONGED TO HER GRANDSON -SHE WAS ATTACKED AT HER HOME AROUND 4PM IN THE AFTERNOON ON TUESDAY.

25. 9-29 - LAMARKUS HICKS - 2- BAKER HEIGHTS WV - IT APPEARS AT THIS TIME THE CHILD WANDERED INTO A NEIGHBOR'S YARD WHERE A DOG WAS KEPT AND THE OWNER OF THE DOG FOUND THE CHILD AFTER HE WAS MAULED - THE VICTIM WAS TAKEN TO A LOCAL HOSPITAL THEN LIFE FLIGHTED TO A LARGER FACILITY WHERE HE DIED. ONE WOMAN COMMENTING ON THESE STORIES SAYS HER MOTHER LIVES IN THE HOUSE IN BETWEEN WHERE THE CHILD LIVED AND WHERE THE ATTACK OCCURRED AND THAT THE CHILD PLAYED OFTEN WITH ALL THE CHILDREN IN THE AREA. SHE SAYS THE DOG WAS A PIT BULL.

26. 10-16 - EDGAR BROWN - 60 - OKLAHOMA CITY OK - ON OCTOBER 6 HE WAS ATTACKED BY 5 PIT BULLS AT A FRIEND'S RENTAL HOUSE - HIS BROTHER SAYS HE HAD BEEN ASKED TO GO OVER AND TAKE OUT GARBAGE FOR THIS FRIEND - THE DOGS APPARENTLY GOT THROUGH A HOLE IN A FENCE AND ATTACKED HIM IN THE FRONT YARD - HIS ARMS AND LEGS WERE SHREDDED AND BOTH LEGS HAD TO BE AMPUTATED AND PART OF AN ARM DUE TO INFECTION FROM THE DOG BITES AND HE ALSO SUFFERED A HEART ATTACK AND UNDERWENT HEART SURGERY - HE DIED ABOUT 2 WEEKS LATER.

27. 10-18 - TANNER SMITH - ON TUESDAY HE WOULD HAVE BEEN 6 YEARS OLD - THE BOY WAS WITH HIS MOTHER ON SUNDAY VISITING AT A FRIEND'S HOME WHEN HE WAS ATTACKED BY 2 PIT BULLS - HE WAS BITTEN ABOUT 16 TIMES INCLUDING A BITE TO THE MAIN ARTERY IN HIS NECK.

28. 11-8 - AMIYAH KAYLA DUNSTON - ELMONT NY - THE CHILD WAS FROM BALDWIN NY AND HAD BEEN TAKEN TO THE HOUSE IN ELMONT EITHER TO VISIT HER BIOLOGICAL FATHER, OR FOR A PLAY DATE WITH OTHER CHILDREN - BOTH HAVE BEEN SAID IN MEDIA ACCOUNTS - SHE WAS PLAYING ON THIS SUNDAY MORNING WITH 2 OTHER GIRLS WHEN THE PIT BULL THAT WAS OWNED BY A RENTER THAT LIVED IN THE UPSTAIRS ATTACKED HER - A WOMAN FROM THE DOWNSTAIRS APARTMENT WAS UNABLE TO PULL THE PIT OFF HER - OTHER NEIGHBORS TRIED TO GET IT OFF HER BUT WERE UNABLE - WHEN POLICE ARRIVED AN OFFICER SHOT THE PIT BULL AND THE CHILD DIED A FEW HOURS LATER AT THE HOSPITAL.

29. 11-12 - ANTHONY RIGGS - 57 - FAMILY MEMBERS DESCRIBE HIM AS A DOG LOVER AND HE HAD HAD MANY LARGE DOGS BEFORE - HE HAD ADOPTED THIS DOG SAID TO BE A ROTTWEILER ABOUT 3 HOURS EARLIER - IT ATTACKED HIM IN HIS HOME AND ATTACKED OTHERS AS THEY TRIED TO COME TO HIS AID - THE DOG WAS FINALLY PUT DOWN.

30. 11-15 - CARTER EVAN HARTLE - 11-M0NTHS-OLD - MARSHALL NY, THE DOG IS SAID TO BE A PIT BULL/SHAR PEI MIX NOW - THE MOTHER SAYS THE BABY WAS IN THE LIVING ROOM WITH HER 3 OLDER DAUGHTERS PLAYING WHEN SHE TURNED AWAY TO DO SOMETHING, THEN HEARD THEM ALL SCREAM AND THE DOG HAD THE BABY BY THE HEAD AND NECK.

31. 12-2 - XAVIER STRICKLAND - 4 - DETROIT MI - THE CHILD WAS WALKING DOWN THE STREET WITH HIS MOTHER WHEN 4 PIT BULLS ATTACKED HIM AND DRAGGED HIM BACK UNDER A FENCE AND SHREDDED HIS TINY BODY IN FRONT OF HIS MOTHER AND NEIGHBORS WHO RAN TO HELP.

32. 12-3 - REBECCA HARDY - 22 - PORT HURON MI - MAULED IN A BACKYARD BY A PIT BULL AND A PIT BULL/HUSKY MIX - SEVERE INJURIES TO FACE AND NECK- THE PARTNER OF THE 22-YEAR-OLD MOTHER OF A TODDLER TOLD OFFICERS THAT REBECCA HAD LEFT THEIR HOUSE AFTER HAVING AN ARGUMENT AND WAS BAREFOOTED - SHE APPARENTLY WENT DOWN THE ALLEY BEHIND THE RENTAL HOUSE WHERE THE PIT BULL AND PIT BULL MIX WERE KEPT INSIDE A FENCE THAT WAS IN DISREPAIR - THE MEDICAL EXAMINER HAS RULED THAT SHE CLIMBED OVER THE FENCE TO COMMIT SUICIDE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HER FIANCE AND FAMILY DO NOT BELIEVE THAT SHE COMMITTED SUICIDE.

33. 12-17 - MARIA TORRES - 57 - WHEN THE OWNER OF 2 PIT BULLS DID NOT SHOW UP FOR WORK ON WEDNESDAY, DEPUTIES WERE ASKED TO CONDUCT A WELFARE CHECK AND ARRIVED AT HER HOME AROUND 3:30PM. THEY FOUND HER DEAD INSIDE HER HOME WITH WOUNDS CONSISTENT WITH DOG BITES AND HER PIT BULLS RUNNING LOOSE INSIDE THE HOME - ON THURSDAY THEY ARE SAYING THAT THEY CAN NOT RULE OUT THAT SHE DIED OF NATURAL CAUSES AND THEN THE DOGS BIT HER BODY - WAITING FOR MORE ON THE AUTOPSY REPORT.

34. 12-18 - JOAN ASHMAN - 83 - SHE WAS IN HER BACK YARD WHEN A NEIGHBOR'S BOXER BUSTED THROUGH THE WOOD FENCE AND ATTACKED HER POODLE MIX - WHEN FIRST RESPONDERS ARRIVED SHE WAS DEAD IN HER BACK YARD AND THE BOXER WAS STILL INSIDE HER HOUSE ATTACKING HER POODLE - JOAN HAD BITES ON HER HANDS AND FEET FROM TRYING TO SAVE HER PET - ME RULED SHE DIED OF A HEART ATTACK PARTLY BROUGHT ON BY THE ATTACK.35. 12-20 - NYJAH ESPINOSA - 23 MONTHS - THE CHILD WHO WOULD HAVE BEEN 2-YEARS-OLD ON CHRISTMAS WAS VISITING IN HER FATHER'S HOME WHEN HIS PIT BULL TYPE DOG ATTACKED HER - SHE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT MIAMI CHILDRENS - THE 5-YEAR-OLD 95 POUND DOG WAS DESCRIBED BY AC AS AN AMERICAN BULLDOG MIX AND BY HER GRANDMOTHER AS A PIT BULL.

THE CODE OF ALABAMA - 1975

Title: 6 CIVIL PRACTICE

Section 6-5-120

Defined.

A "nuisance" is anything that works hurt, inconvenience or damage to another. The fact that the act done may otherwise be lawful does not keep it from being a nuisance. The inconvenience complained of must not be fanciful or such as would affect only one of a fastidious taste, but it should be such as would affect an ordinary reasonable man.

(Code 1907, §5193; Code 1923, §9271; Code 1940, T. 7, §1081

Section 6-5-121

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Distinction between public and private nuisances; right of action generally.

Nuisances are either public or private. A public nuisance is one which damages all persons who come within the sphere of its operation, though it may vary in its effects on individuals. A private nuisance is one limited in its injurious effects to one or a few individuals. Generally, a public nuisance gives no right of action to any individual, but must be abated by a process instituted in the name of the state. A private nuisance gives a right of action to the person injured.

Use of force in defense of a person.

(a) A person is justified in using physical force upon another person in order to defend himself or herself or a third person from what he or she reasonably believes to be the use or imminent use of unlawful physical force by that other person, and he or she may use a degree of force which he or she reasonably believes to be necessary for the purpose. A person may use deadly physical force, and is legally presumed to be justified in using deadly physical force in self-defense or the defense of another person pursuant to subdivision (4), if the person reasonably believes that another person is:

(1) Using or about to use unlawful deadly physical force.

(2) Using or about to use physical force against an occupant of a dwelling while committing or attempting to commit a burglary of such dwelling.

(3) Committing or about to commit a kidnapping in any degree, assault in the first or second degree, burglary in any degree, robbery in any degree, forcible rape, or forcible sodomy.

(4) In the process of unlawfully and forcefully entering, or has unlawfully and forcefully entered, a dwelling, residence, or occupied vehicle, or federally licensed nuclear power facility, or is in the process of sabotaging or attempting to sabotage a federally licensed nuclear power facility, or is attempting to remove, or has forcefully removed, a person against his or her will from any dwelling, residence, or occupied vehicle when the person has a legal right to be there, and provided that the person using the deadly physical force knows or has reason to believe that an unlawful and forcible entry or unlawful and forcible act is occurring. The legal presumption that a person using deadly physical force is justified to do so pursuant to this subdivision does not apply if:

a. The person against whom the defensive force is used has the right to be in or is a lawful resident of the dwelling, residence, or vehicle, such as an owner or lessee, and there is not an injunction for protection from domestic violence or a written pretrial supervision order of no contact against that person;

b. The person sought to be removed is a child or grandchild, or is otherwise in the lawful custody or under the lawful guardianship of, the person against whom the defensive force is used;

c. The person who uses defensive force is engaged in an unlawful activity or is using the dwelling, residence, or occupied vehicle to further an unlawful activity; or

d. The person against whom the defensive force is used is a law enforcement officer acting in the performance of his or her official duties.

(b) A person who is justified under subsection (a) in using physical force, including deadly physical force, and who is not engaged in an unlawful activity and is in any place where he or she has the right to be has no duty to retreat and has the right to stand his or her ground.

(c) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a), a person is not justified in using physical force if:

(1) With intent to cause physical injury or death to another person, he or she provoked the use of unlawful physical force by such other person.

(2) He or she was the initial aggressor, except that his or her use of physical force upon another person under the circumstances is justifiable if he or she withdraws from the encounter and effectively communicates to the other person his or her intent to do so, but the latter person nevertheless continues or threatens the use of unlawful physical force.

(3) The physical force involved was the product of a combat by agreement not specifically authorized by law.

(d) A person who uses force, including deadly physical force, as justified and permitted in this section is immune from criminal prosecution and civil action for the use of such force, unless the force was determined to be unlawful.

(e) A law enforcement agency may use standard procedures for investigating the use of force described in subsection (a), but the agency may not arrest the person for using force unless it determines that there is probable cause that the force used was unlawful.